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    DATE: March 1, 2010


    PRESS RELEASE
    ZORYAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA, INC.
    Suite 310
    Toronto, ON, Canada M3B 3H9
    CONTACT: Patil Halajian
    Tel: 416-250-9807
    Fax: 416-512-1736
    E-mail: [email protected]
    www.zoryaninstitute.org


    Announcing Accredited Genocide & Human Rights University Program



    Toronto, Canada - The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights
    Studies is pleased to announce the 9th year of the Genocide and Human Rights
    University Program ('GHRUP'). The Program is offered in collaboration with
    the University of Toronto, which allows registered students to earn
    graduate-level credits.

    The GHRUP is not only rewarding for the expert instructors, but the program
    is often described by students as a life-changing experience. One graduate
    described it perhaps best, `The GHRUP offers a brilliant opportunity for
    everyone who is interested in deepening their understanding of the
    phenomenon of genocide and ways we can work for its prevention. It's high
    academic standard, friendly and encouraging atmosphere provide a great
    setting to tackle and process one of the most destructive sides of human
    existence.'

    Incorporating genocide theory, history, sociology, political science and
    international law, and through a comparative analysis of several case
    studies (such as the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda,
    Darfur) and a number of special themes, the GHRUP explores such issues as:
    - The Foundations of Human Rights
    - International Politics and Genocide
    - International Law and Genocide
    - The Preconditions of Genocide
    - Patterns of Genocide
    - Conflict Resolution & Reconciliation
    - Genocide Denial
    - Genocide Prevention


    Major Brent Beardsley, an officer with the UN Peace Keeping forces and an
    eye-witness to the Rwandan Genocide, also an instructor at the GHRUP,
    expressed the course's ability to `look at the bigger crime of genocide but
    always focus on, at the very heart of it, the horrendous human tragedy, and
    the responsibility we have to maintain their memory and to pass that memory
    on to others.'

    Prof. Herbert Hirsch of Virginia Commonwealth University, one of the editors
    of Genocide Studies & Prevention: An International Journal, and a teacher of
    prevention at the GHRUP commented, `The Genocide and Human Rights University
    Program is ... one of the only programs that I have in fact ever heard of
    where students are in attendance for two very intense weeks, eight hours a
    day, where they are exposed to some of the leading scholars in their field
    to teach their specialties....Here they are exposed to ... eight different
    professors, all of who are doing what they know best. Students get to
    interact with them, they get to interact with each other, they learn from
    the professors, they learn from each other, and the professors learn from
    the students. This is, in fact, a unique educational experience for everyone
    who participates.'


    CREDITS

    Students currently registered at the University of Toronto and graduate
    students from any university in Ontario may receive credit with no
    additional cost in tuition. Undergraduate students registered at other
    institutions across the province may make special arrangements for the same
    privilege. Students in other jurisdictions who wish to take the course for
    credit must make special arrangements with their local institution.

    Applicants must be current or recent university students with a minimum of
    three years of undergraduate experience. Details and registration
    information are available on the program's website, www.genocidestudies.org
    or by emailing [email protected]. The GHRUP will be held in Toronto,
    August 2nd to 13th, 2010. We urge international students to send in their
    applications as soon as possible to avoid complications pertaining to visas.


    The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A
    Division of the Zoryan Institute) is dedicated to scholarly research and
    dissemination of knowledge regarding the phenomenon of genocide in all of
    its aspects, to create an awareness of it as an ongoing scourge, and promote
    the necessity of preventing it.
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